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Andrew Hughes
Andrew Hughes
	Hughes portraying Adolf Hitler in The Crazy Adventure (1965)
Born	January 16, 1908; Ottoman Empire
Died	September 1, 1996 (aged 88); France
Citizenship	Australia
Occupation(s)	Business executive, actor
Years active	1959–84

Andrew Hughes (アンドリュー・ヒューズ, Andoryû Hyûzu, January 16, 1908 – September 1, 1996^[2]) was a Turkish-born actor and business executive best known for acting in several Japanese films.^[3] His most notable role was that of Adolf Hitler in the 1965 Japanese comedy The Crazy Adventure, which was reported to be compelling as he played him as a serious villain.^[4]

Hughes has also appeared in films such as King Kong Escapes (1967), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Tidal Wave (1973), ESPY (1974), and Sayonara Jupiter (1984). He also starred in the Hollywood films The Last Voyage (1960) and Flight from Ashiya (1964) (both partially filmed and set in Japan).^[5]

Career

Being virtually exclusively active in the Japanese film industry, Hughes was often cast in the roles of various Westerners, often portraying an international reporter, politician or foreign military officer. Not much is known about Hughes's early, pre-acting years, but it is known that he was born in Ottoman Turkey where he originally worked as a career businessman with some small-time acting experience as an extra. Actor Robert Dunham asserted that most fellow Western actors in Japan were in fact of Turkish origin as many Turks had fled to Japan after the Turkish revolution by way of China in order to avoid being drafted to the army. Hughes was ultimately based in Tokyo as an import-export businessman and eventually started making numerous appearances in Japanese films in a career that spanned from the late 1950s to the mid-1980s. As most Westerners appearing in Japanese films at the time spoke little or no Japanese, Hughes was dubbed by Japanese-speaking actors in most of his films.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Selected filmography

Film
Year	Title	Role	Original title	Notes
1959	The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal	General MacArthur	Daitoa senso to kokusai saiban
	Boss of the Underworld	Casino Guest	Ankokugai no kaoyaku	Uncredited
	Submarine I-57 Will Not Surrender	Western Diplomat	Sensuikan I-57 kofuku sezu
	Battle in Outer Space	Meeting attendees	Uchū Daisensō	Uncredited
1960	The Last Voyage	Radio Operator		Scenes filmed in Japan
1964	Flight from Ashiya	Dr. Horton		Scenes filmed in Japan
1965	Honkon no shiroibara
1965	Crazy Adventure	Adolf Hitler	Kureji no daiboken	Reissued in the U.S. as: Don't Call Me a Crime Man
1966	Water Cyborg	Professor Howard	Kaitei daisensô	U.S. Title: The Terror Beneath the Sea
1966	Ôgon batto	Dr. Pearl
1967	Las Vegas Free-for-All	Kid Gold
	King Kong Escapes	United Nations journalist	Kingu Kongu no gyakushû	Reissued in Japan as: King Kong's Counterattack
	Monsieur Zivaco	Alka Honne
	Scattered Clouds	Canadian Man	Midaregumo	^[9]
1968	Booted Babe, Busted Boss	Stonefeller	Hyappatsu hyakuchu: Ogon on me/Ironfinger 2: Goldeneye
	Destroy All Monsters	Dr. Stevenson	Kaijû sôshingeki
	Nippon ichi no uragiri-otoko	General MacArthur
1969	The Big Explosion	Mister Z
	New Zealand no Wakadaishō	John O'Hara	New Zealand no Wakadaishō
	Latitude Zero	Sir Maurice Poeley	Ido zero daisakusen	Uncredited
	Battle of the Japan Sea	Zinovy Rozhestvensky	Nihonkai daikaisen
1970	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Embassy Delegation Employee of Japan		Uncredited
1971	Be Deceived!	President of Empire Amalgam Technics		Uncredited
1973	Submersion of Japan	Australian Prime Minister	Nippon chinbotsu	Based on the book Japan Sinks by Sakyo Komatsu
1974	ESPY	P.B.	Esupai
1976	Fumō Chitai	President of Luckyed	Fumō Chitai
1984	Sayonara Jupiter	Senator Shadllic (Earth Federation Congress)	Sayônara, Jûpetâ

References

^ Tanaka, Tomoyuki (1983). 東宝特撮映画全史 [The Complete History of Toho Special Effects Movies] (in Japanese). Toho Publishing Business Office. p. 527. ISBN 4-924609-00-5.
^ "Andrew Hughes". IMDb. Retrieved 2019-10-04.
^ de Gruyter, Walter (2004). Japanese Biographical Index. Germany: Die Deutsche Bibliothek. ISBN 3-598-34026-5.
^ Mitchell, Charles P. (2002). The Hitler Filmography: Worldwide Feature Film and Television Miniseries Portrayals, 1940 through 2000. McFarland & Company. p. 136. ISBN 9780786412952.
^ Afi (1997). The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1961-70: Feature Films, 1961-1970. California, USA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520209701.
^ "Andrew Hughes". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
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^ Ryfle, Steve (1999). Japan's Favorite Mon-star: The Unauthorized Biography of "The Big G". Canada: ECW Press. ISBN 978-1550223484.
^ "乱れ雲". eiga.com. Retrieved March 13, 2021.